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“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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